Person:Zerelda Owings (1)

Zerelda Owings
d.1894 Indiana
m. 1805
  1. Elizabeth 'Eliza' Owings1806 - 1881
  2. Joshua Owings1810 - 1858
  3. Zerelda Owings1812 - 1894
  4. Charlotte Owings1814 -
  5. William H. Owings1816 - 1889
  6. Lucinda Owings1820 - Aft 1850
  7. Minerva Owings1822 -
  8. Ephraim Owings1824 - 1898
  9. Mary Ann Owings1826 - 1905
m. 1851
Facts and Events
Name Zerelda Owings
Gender Female
Birth? 1812 Montgomery Co., Kentucky
Marriage 1851 Indianato William Jr. Stoops
Death? 1894 Indiana

According to various sources, Zerelda was the daughter of Samuel Owings and Mary 'Polly' Hopkins. She first married John Willis Gray ( ) in 1830 and had children William, James H., Mary Jane, Richard, Eliza, and Rachel. She married William Stoops in 1851; and her brother Ephraim married William's daughter Sarah in 1851 -- his third wife.

 In the 1870 census Zerelda [indexed as Zenelda] Stoops is 58 KY, widow with daughter Susan 16 IN.
 In the 1880 census for Clay, Dearborn Co., Indiana, she is listed as 'stepmother' Ceralda Stoops 68 in the household of James H. Gray, 47 KY 'blacksmith'.